Turkish police interrupted voting for the Abkhaz elections yesterday in Istanbul. Police officers confiscated ballot boxes set up at the offices of a nongovernmental organization despite resistance by a Turkish opposition lawmaker. Turkey deems the elections illegal as the country does not
recognize the breakaway region of Georgia as an independent state.
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